About

When Reski Damayanti joined Unilever in January 2016 she became the company’s most senior lawyer in Indonesia. As senior corporate and category counsel director she faces a ‘very dynamic external environment, including constantly changing policies [requiring] rapid and accurate legal solutions on a daily basis to sustain [Unilever’s] business ambition’. A firm believer in the need to provide ‘rigorous analysis, firm decisions and the ability to take the lead and influence others’, Reski Damayanti has a proven track record of success across various private practice and in-house roles. Among the many highlights of her career, Reski Damayanti notes her involvement in several important and high-value projects as particular standouts. These include the restructuring of a local pharmaceutical group in her first in-house role at a company in Indonesia, a project that she claims ‘shaped my leadership in [complex] projects’. Further evidence of this talent came when Reski Damayanti successfully closed a multimillion dollar financial restructuring project, which involved the development of strategy and working with US lawyers across the border, proving her versatility, skill and intuitiveness. In her current role Reski Damayanti is trusted with advising senior management with legal issues for Unilever in Indonesia, as well as assisting other companies in the country affiliated to the fast-moving consumer goods group. With a keen eye for the future development of the legal profession, Reski Damayanti is keen to involve tools in her future work that ‘can help counsel use more digital acumen in their work, as this will help legal teams keep up with the transformation in the business landscape’.